On sets defining few ordinary planes

DOI10.1007/S00454-017-9935-2MaRDI QIDQ724952zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Simeon Ball

Publication date 26 July 2018

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02138

zbMATH Keywords

eight associated points theoremordinary planes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35) Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04)

Abstract: Let $S$ be a set of $n$ points in real three-dimensional space, no three collinear and not all co-planar. We prove that if the number of planes incident with exactly three points of $S$ is less than $K{n}^2$ for some $K=o(n^{frac17})$ then, for $n$ sufficiently large, all but at most $O(K)$ points of $S$ are contained in the intersection of two quadrics. Furthermore, we prove that there is a constant $c$ such that if the number of planes incident with exactly three points of $S$ is less than $frac12n^2-cn$ then, for $n$ sufficiently large, $S$ is either a prism, an anti-prism, a prism with a point removed or an anti-prism with a point removed. As a corollary to the main result, we deduce the following theorem. Let $S$ be a set of $n$ points in the real plane. If the number of circles incident with exactly three points of $S$ is less than $K{n}^2$ for some $K=o(n^{frac17})$ then, for $n$ sufficiently large, all but at most $O(K)$ points of $S$ are contained in a curve of degree at most four.

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